New Years Eve.

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Hello Dear Friends,
    Well,  here we are again on the cusp of a new year and a new decade, 2020, easy to type, say, pronounce and figure.  For many other folks besides me, it is another year that we reflect back upon to count our blessings of being alive, with whatever health and happiness we can garner, as we say 'goodbye' to those who have died/ perished --- some of our loved ones, friends and relatives until we see them again in heaven.   And so we might use the term,  "Bitter-Sweet" with mixed feelings.  All too many times the 'good die too young, and the wicked seem to live forever!'  Good thing that you and I have the 'Good Book' as an anchor to keep us true and steady, no matter what shape the sea is in, calm or stormy.  
      Personally,  I think that it's somewhat important to know where our "roots" are grounded and where and whom we came from -- and where we hope we are going!   I was showing my wife what group of people I am from in the world... the "Volga-Germans" as I looked it up on my nice, little smartphone.  I am not any better or worse -- but just a humble human being counting myself BLESSED to be from this group of people that was 'transplanted' from Europe to America, and now proud to be part of the great American landscape and a true Patriot.  Many of my relatives settled in the vast farmland wheat fields of South Western Kansas near Hays, KS.   I think that they are a tall, handsome, smart race of human beings, and many served with honour in America's wars, including myself.   Just Google:  Volga-Germans. 

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2. Who are the Volga Germans? | Center for Volga German Studies

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   Who are the Volga Germans? The majority (about 95 percent) of those who settled in the colonies established by  Catherine the Great  along the Volga River were ethnic Germans from the war-ravaged German states where religious strife and economic hardship had created a  climate ripe for immigration.

         And after my wife, Loretta showed me the quick and easy way to use my smartphone to search, investigate and study things, I can look up almost anything, subject, place or person, just as I do on my 'Main Frame P.C. --personal computer' on the kitchen table!   And I teach people how to "wing it" --- if you don't know exactly where to find something, even scriptures in the Bible, just TRY TO GET PART OF THAT SCRIPTURE OR WORD, and the machine will 'flesh it out' and complete the desired scripture/ Bible verse for you!@!   That is just so cool !  
      Our hard-working president Trump has promoted and pushed important bills, rules, procedures into Law that have benefited all U.S. citizens and others too.  He has protected the U.S. Constitution, the common man, Freedom of Religion, the 2nd Amendment and all the rest for the betterment of all Americans, also those in the world, and we should be glad, also re-elect him for another 4 years to work his magic anew.  I, personally believe that God has put him in office to stave off the 'wicked one' for a short time while evangelist Christians help thousands of other folks attain Salvation thru the blood of Jesus Christ...  before the SHTF time when the proverbial 'Ark' slams shut at the Rapture!   Maybe I am wrong but I don't see it that way.  I do see things thru the eyes of an old man near the age of 71 so I can accurately compare the 'good ole days' to right now as wanton violence occurs every single day and night in our big cities -- and even in our peaceful countrysides --- even in our Christian churches where innocent people are slaughtered!  And then too many STUPID socialist 'leaders' still want to strip honest, well trained, responsible Americans of their right to bear firearms??  Ha!  What's wrong with that picture?   Will the goofy so-called 'leaders' also ban our knives?  

Please allow me to wish all of my great, friendly readers a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Warm Regards,
Thomas G Schuckman

Thomas,

The current U.S. House majority passed the most dangerous bill I have yet seen—the intentionally misnamed "Equality Act." Thankfully, the Senate leadership is preventing this bill from coming up for a vote. But there are already 47 senators sponsoring this disastrous bill, and billion-dollar-companies are pushing it hard.

If 2020 changes even a few seats in the Senate or even flips the White House, disaster will fall upon every American—especially Christians and people who share our Judeo-Christian values.

• If the elections go the wrong way, then the "Equality Act," among many other destructive laws, will immediately pass.
• The blood of infants will flow freely. We will pay for their slaughter with our tax dollars. And we will pay as a nation.
• Children will be taught that they can choose to be male or female. This causes unspeakable damage.
• Churches will be forced to celebrate the LGBT agenda. They will face crippling lawsuits for non-compliance and will lose their tax exemptions. Christian colleges will lose their accreditations, which will force them to compromise or close their doors. Sin will be celebrated with the force of law.
• Parents could lose their children if they refuse to use their preferred pronouns or withhold surgery to remove healthy gender-specific organs. It is already happening.
  

I am not exaggerating. I wish this was hyperbole, but it's not. This is why I am working so hard to get this message of warning to thoughtful patriots like you! Wrong decisions in 2020 will cause an explosion of evil that will dramatically impact your home and loved ones.

I need your help to make sure this rampant unleashing of evil does not come to pass. To counteract this in 2020, we are preparing an aggressive legislative and grassroots mobilization strategy. Our goal is to educate and motivate millions of people to vote biblical values, despite the hi-tech censorship coming from Silicon Valley and elsewhere.

We have one of the largest lists of Bible-believing churches in the country. We want to get our Silence is Not an Option DVD and booklet into the hands of every pastor possible. You can help us reach out and mobilize tens of thousands of pastors in battleground states to encourage millions of strategically placed people to vote biblical values!

As we approach the end of 2019, I am issuing you an urgent "Year-End Challenge Opportunity" to help us reach this goal.

I am deeply concerned about 2020. That's why I'm reaching out to you today and am issuing this Challenge Opportunity. Join in the fight to save helpless infants, schoolchildren, families, faith, and our very freedom.

The endless attacks on President Trump are because he has done more for religious freedom, life, family, America, and Israel than any other president in modern history. And by extension, the people who hate the President have that same hatred for all politically active Christians and people of faith.

This year, the mask of Satan has been removed. We have witnessed New York legislators cheering after they passed a law permitting abortion up to birth and beyond.

Liberty Counsel Action is gearing up to reach millions of citizens and tens of thousands of churches in order to mobilize people to pray and vote biblical values. But to accomplish all that needs to happen in 2020, I urgently need your help right now. You have just a few hours left this year to respond.

With your help, we can continue fighting for good laws and work to stop the bad ones. We have been very successful in 2019. We need to continue our efforts as we enter the crucially important year ahead.

Thanks in advance for your actions to support our work on Capitol Hill and to educate and mobilize millions of citizens during the critical 2020 election season.

May today be the eve of restoration in our great nation!

Blessings,

Mat Staver, Chairman
Liberty Counsel Action

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Undoing the Damage of Obama.

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Dear Friends and avid Readers:
     I am going to 'resurrect' an old term that was made famous by a hero named, Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, bodybuilder, also Governor of California, USA.  The term he used on occasion is, "girlie-men."  I would say that it best described, weak-kneed, punky, failures at being normal MEN in society, instead of assuming their roles as regular men who are found to be anatomically correct males....  just as Father God created the first man, Adam, in the book of Genesis, chapter One, verse 26, and elsewhere.  And Jesus, Himself even traced His lineage all the way back to Adam in Luke, chapter 3, verses 23 through 38, "which was the son of God." 
      But after the fall from Grace of mankind the human family grew steadily worse, morally depraved, so that we are almost as bad as ancient Sodom and Gomorrah, which had to be destroyed, and plans to clean up planet Earth are also recorded in the KJV Bible, and we ALL do well to study these texts to prepare ourselves for survival by drawing close to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  

Conservative folks like me who are educated and well versed in History and Bible studies notice that too many wimpy men complain, cry, and act like 'girlie men' and worse when our President Donald J. Trump fulfils his  election campaign promises to clean up the USA to "Make America Great."   But their memory is short as they fail to notice all the sins, total mess-ups, disasters under 'Barry's' tenure, experimenting with the 'Social Fabric' of our nation, also taking away and burying many of our Freedoms --- but the Conservatives and Republicans just stood fast and endured the cesspools to rise and pollute our country without throwing childlike tantrums and such!  We tried our best to slow down and educate the masses concerning the evils of ABORTION, forcing girls and ladies the total embarrassment and dangers of allowing MEN walking into the Women's restrooms just because some males "felt" like a female on any given day....  duh!  Our military was also messed up when the Services allowed the sexes to integrate within.  Illegal aliens were allowed to flow across the border, also bussed in droves to major cities during the night and injected into prior safe neighbourhoods where more rapes, robberies, theft, and assaults occurred thereafter!  And of course liberal judges, politicians had a field day to goof up years of progress, and the school system was "dumbed down," too, so that our true form of Democracy had trouble functioning as normal.  
     Yes, we true Patriots endured and now after we elected a good President who is keeping all of his Conservative pledges -- the other side of evil-doers-- read, Socialists are howling at the moon and using every sort of illegal procedure known to man.   We must not give an inch, but work and share tirelessly until the coming new election to re-install our good champion, Pres. Trump, again.  Is he perfect?  No!  But he is a good man who keeps his word and he loves Freedom and Liberty!  He loves and protects our American Constitution, also all U.S. Military who guard us day and night.  Pray and vote for him one year from now, please.  Please share this humble blog post with your friends and neighbours if you think and believe it has merit.

The devil's disciples --- 'Democrats'--Socialists--Communists are pushing for the ultimate "One World Government" ruled by the super-elite who think and believe that the huddled masses of humanity are TOO STUPID to govern themselves.  If / when that happens, there won't be a "Middle Class" anymore --- just 2--classes,  Rich and Poor!  Visit countries like Venuzaella for proof of that theory...  Ha!   But we've seen this old picture before, friends!  Don't be fooled again.  Satan is just up to his old tricks of fooling mankind with the same soup doctored up with his heavy spices plus more polluted sugar-- and High Fructose Corn Syrup!!   It's a slow poison, IMHO.  In the USA, we are dying from being TOO FAT, heart disease and cancer, etc.  And all of those fake ingredients don't help us at all.  OK, friends, I added some of that stuff as a joke, but whatever Satan the devil is selling -- is no good, and you can bet on that!  Just say NO !  

Warm Regards,
Tommy Schuckman
Email:  tschuckman@aol.com 

Obama, who, Hasson says, took pride in his lack of military knowledge and experience, made widespread changes to personnel policy, budgetary expenditures and resource allocations that harmed readiness, training and troop safety.  Obama’s transgender policy of “mixed genitalia in the bathrooms,” took precedence over established military culture.  Soldiers were judged by the gender they wished to be rather than their biological sex.  Obama essentially used the military to lead social change in American society rather than preserving time-honored traditions that emphasized troop cohesiveness and readiness.

Although all-male units outperformed coed units in 70% of combat tasks and mixed units were not recommended, Obama still issued a directive to integrate the Marine Corps infantry companies.  Hasson characterizes this policy as “fulfilling the dreams of progressive ideologues at the expense of a service member’s life.”

When the Army was ordered to promote “social justice,” combat veterans in 2012 were required to don fake breasts and bellies to understand how pregnant soldiers fared during training.  In two separate, college ROTC events in Philadelphia and metropolitan Phoenix in 2015, cadets were required to walk in high heels to raise awareness about sexual violence against women.’

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December 29, 2019

How Obama Impacted the Military

By Janet Levy

Radical changes imposed on our military by progressives, begun in earnest during the Obama administration, are negatively impacting our combat readiness and jeopardizing the lives of our men and women in uniform and, ultimately, our national security.  In Stand Down:  How Social Justice Warriors Are Sabotaging America’s Military, author James Hasson elucidates how Barack Obama fundamentally changed military culture to make our nation less secure. Hasson, a former Army captain, Army Ranger School graduate, and Afghanistan veteran, argues that military readiness was sacrificed for identity politics and progressive rhetoric. He lists examples such as policies that established “safe spaces,” prohibited “micro-aggressions,” denigrated “hyper-masculine” traits, implemented unwise “green” standards and injected “social justice” guidelines in military operations.

In his revealing book, Captain Hasson describes how Obama’s military appointees, mainly progressive ideologues lacking military experience and hailing from academic, political, and the private sectors, were placed in charge of seasoned combat generals with decades of combat experience.  The priorities, experience, and philosophies of the officers and appointees couldn’t have been more disparate. 

Many senior military staff members suffered in silence at Obama’s attempt to use the military as a “laboratory for progressive social engineering,” according to Hasson.  Exemplifying this shift was the naming of Navy ships after Leftist political heroes. Socialist labor-activist Cesar Chavez and slain gay-rights advocate Harvey Milk -- who left the Navy for being gay -- were among those who Ray Mabus, Obama’s secretary of the Navy, announced would have ships named after them.  This practice flew in the face of the hallowed Navy tradition of naming ships after presidents and war heroes.  

Obama, who, Hasson says, took pride in his lack of military knowledge and experience, made widespread changes to personnel policy, budgetary expenditures and resource allocations that harmed readiness, training and troop safety.  Obama’s transgender policy of “mixed genitalia in the bathrooms,” took precedence over established military culture.  Soldiers were judged by the gender they wished to be rather than their biological sex.  Obama essentially used the military to lead social change in American society rather than preserving time-honored traditions that emphasized troop cohesiveness and readiness. 

The author explains that the cornerstone of every military policy is its impact on combat.  The military is most concerned with physical outcomes, the determinant of ultimate success.  That focus was weakened by the transgender policy instituted by the Obama administration allowing soldiers to serve under the sex that conformed to their gender identity even without sex reassignment surgery or other physical changes.  This practice had a profound effect on fitness, performance, and deployability.  Hasson recognizes that transgender soldiers have served in the military in the past but according to the physical fitness, grooming, and housing regulations that conformed to their biological sex. 

Other issues included the quandary that arose when a recruit identified as non-binary.  Military leadership was stymied by the dilemma of applying appropriate standards for such individuals.  The military must find those most qualified to serve and reject those suffering from mental conditions such as anxiety and depression.  Transgender people suffer from markedly higher rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide than the general population.

Obama’s new policies also negatively impacted the education of cadets, Hasson asserts.  Military academy courses on American history were overhauled to focus on race and the pervasive narrative that America is a racist country.  The international history class focused on gender and a semester of military history was completely deleted from the curriculum.  How can military students become successful warriors if they eschew military history, are educated to disdain their country, and view history through the lens of race and gender? 

Today’s military academies have a higher percentage of civilian, liberal professors who have promoted a permissive atmosphere that has contributed to a deterioration in the level of discipline, Hasson adds.  The current environment with its “safe spaces” and emphasis on race, gender, sexual orientation and social justice, as well as rights, are antithetical to the military’s hierarchical structure and its emphasis on duty, merit, discipline, and competence.

As part of the Obama administration’s social engineering agenda that attempted to erase the differences between men and women, the Army was coerced to lower its standards for Ranger school to admit women who didn’t qualify for the special-forces unit.  Military brass was pressured to provide ample pre-training instruction and multiple do-overs exclusively for female candidates.  Further, despite extensive studies that found lowered standards for women to meet progressive goals, they were forced to deny the study results.

When Marine infantry units integrated women, the male-female units had higher injury rates, slower casualty-evacuation times, poorer marksmanship skills, poorer preparation of fortified fighting positions and overall lower battle-essential skill sets than all-male units.  Although all-male units outperformed coed units in 70% of combat tasks and mixed units were not recommended, Obama still issued a directive to integrate the Marine Corps infantry companies.  Hasson characterizes this policy as “fulfilling the dreams of progressive ideologues at the expense of a service member’s life.”

When the Army was ordered to promote “social justice,” combat veterans in 2012 were required to don fake breasts and bellies to understand how pregnant soldiers fared during training.  In two separate, college ROTC events in Philadelphia and metropolitan Phoenix in 2015, cadets were required to walk in high heels to raise awareness about sexual violence against women. 

In 2013, a Pentagon training manual for Equal Opportunity Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) presented white, heterosexual, Christian males as recipients of unearned social privilege and cited the disadvantages of blacks, women and homosexuals.  The manual listed the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing organization that maligns conservative groups alongside neo-Nazis and the KKK, as a resource that officers could use to obtain more information about hate groups and extremism.  After pushback from legislators and religious groups that railed against the false labeling and listing of mainstream Christian groups as “hate” groups because they don’t subscribe to far-left ideology, the Obama Department of Defense removed the list, but retained all other SPLC materials and data. 

All these diversions took a toll on military training and readiness, wasting valuable time and resources that could have been dedicated to drilling and essential tasks. 

Hasson acknowledges that the Trump administration has pushed back on many misguided “reforms” instituted by Obama and has reprioritized the military’s warfighting culture, rejecting political correctness, social engineering, identity politics and other policies that serve no real military purpose and undermine combat readiness and performance.  The author ends his excellent book with a prescription for returning the military to its critical mission.  He recommends the military refocus on appropriate academy education, readiness, deployability and eligibility based on physical fitness, merit and discipline and move away from social justice, political correctness, carbon emissions and other pet progressive projects.  Such a move will return the military to full combat readiness, protect the lives of our soldiers, and, ultimately, safeguard our national security.